Major IT outage at Europe's largest caravan and RV club makes for not-so-happy campers
Updated The UK's Caravan and Motorhome Club (CAMC) is battling a suspected cyberattack with members reporting widespread IT outages for the past five days.…
eBay tells 1,000 employees their days at company are numbered
Tat bazaar eBay is laying off 1,000 employees, or 9 percent of the workforce, claiming that general hiring and overhead costs are outpacing the wider commercial growth of the company.…
US govt, tech sector team up to get academia making its own next-gen AI models
The US National Science Foundation has hooked up with tech companies to help academics secure computing power, data, and more to build their own AI models.…
HPE's updated Spaceborne Computer-2 ready to hitch another ride to the ISS
An updated version of HPE's Spaceborne Computer-2 is set to launch to the International Space Station (ISS) this week.…
Using GoAnywhere MFT for file transfers? Patch now – an exploit's out for a critical bug
Security experts are wasting no time in publishing working exploits for a critical vulnerability in Fortra GoAnywhere MFT, which was publicly disclosed just over a day ago.…
Microsoft admits issues with Windows 10 patch almost 2 months after release
Microsoft is confirming that an issue with update KB5032278, which brought Copilot to Windows 10 machines at the end of 2023, could throw up a system preparation tool error.…
ASML orders boom but export restrictions could hamper growth
Chipmaking kit maker ASML grew 30 percent last year and the order book more than tripled in calendar Q4 as customers rushed to invest in new tools - yet the business remains cautious for 2024 amid stringent export restrictions.…
€2B SAP restructure program will affect 8,000 roles
German software giant SAP has announced a restructuring program likely to hit 8,000 jobs worldwide.…
Microsoft's plucky challengers, Bing and Edge, might gain DMA exemptions
Microsoft has issued a Windows 10 patch to address EU regulators' concerns about its ubiquitous OS as industry chatter swirls around Edge and Bing potentially dodging antitrust watchdogs due to a lack of dominance.…
'Birthplace of Amazon' on the market for $2.28M
With an interior decked out in sterile tones of corporate gray, the 1,540 sq ft rental bungalow at 10704 NE 28th St in Bellevue, Washington, is rather unremarkable compared to the imposing facades of its neighboring properties.…
Tech world won't have long to fall in line when EU signs off on AI Act
Users and builders of AI systems face a race against time to comply with incoming European legislation if lawmakers continue on their current trajectory.…
What Microsoft's latest email breach says about this IT security heavyweight
Comment For most organizations – especially security vendors – disclosing a corporate email breach, in which executives' internal messages and attachments were stolen, would noticeably ding their stock prices.…
Does AI give InfiniBand a moment to shine? Or will Ethernet hold the line?
Growing demand for AI will see the datacenter switching market grow by 50 percent, according to Dell'Oro analyst Sameh Boujelbene, who has also predicted considerable innovation in the switching arena.…
The rise and fall of the standard user interface
Retro Tech Week In the early days of microcomputers, everyone just invented their own user interfaces, until an Apple-influenced IBM standard brought about harmony. Then, sadly, the world forgot.…
Apple has botched 3D for decades. So good luck with the Vision Pro, Tim
Column As we wait for Apple’s Vision Pro to arrive after pre-orders opened in early January, complete with a promise of 'spatial computing' perfected, Cupertino’s spotty history in the third dimension offers a useful counterweight to the reality distortion field accompanying the device’s launch.…
Think tank warns North Korea uses AI for battle planning, maybe using cloudy resources
North Korea is investing in its AI capacity, and a think tank has called on cloud computing service providers to do more to ensure the hermit kingdom can’t rent the infrastructure it needs to advance its capabilities.…
COVID-19 test lab accused of exposing 1.3 million patient records to open internet
A password-less database containing an estimated 1.3 million sets of Dutch COVID-19 testing records was left exposed to the open internet, and it's not clear if anyone is taking responsibility.…
GCHQ's NCSC warns of 'realistic possibility' AI will help state-backed malware evade detection
The idea that AI could generate super-potent and undetectable malware has been bandied about for years – and also already debunked. However, an article published today by the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) suggests there is a "realistic possibility" that by 2025, the most sophisticated attackers’ tools will improve markedly thanks to AI models informed by data describing successful cyber-hits.…
Amid Broadcom's subscription push, VMware killed a SaaS product
Broadcom has killed off a VMware software-as-a-service product, despite also moving the virtualization giant's other wares to subscription-only licenses – the sort of arrangement at which SaaS excels.…
Taiwan connects its first home-grown quantum computer to the internet
Taiwanese research institute Academia Sinica has connected a home-brew quantum computer to the internet.…